Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
BOBBY JONESIf I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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